Marty_Doyle

Director of Finance for an academic(medical college) physician group of over 650 doctors in all specialties in New York City, in the same institution for over 22 years. Before that managed a restaurant, worked in retail sales, bartender, waiter, house painter.

One thing our Council does is split the training into two sessions on a week night some months and hold them together opn a Saturday in other months. The split sessions - one night NLE, and the following week another night CSLST - makes it easier to get trained in the next position one graduates to. New Leader Essentials is "eternal", but one is supposed to go to separate training for Tiger, Cub , Webelos, etc Leader position as you move up. Getting adults or leaders to go at noon on a Saturday is not as appealing (fdor the second half of the training covering CSLST). And in both the De

One of the responses to this will be that the overwhelming majority of Boys Scouts currently come up from Cub Scouts (I think I heard 90% at University of Scouting), and that a less than stellar percentage of Cub Scouts (less than 50%) move on to Boy Scouts. (Not to even address the first year retention issue). So, the feeling at the district/council/national level is "We already have these boys in the start of the program (Cub Scouts), let's work on them to stay in Scouting." There is logic in this. But, there is the "coolness" aspect that is not being emphasized enough, and which is b

In spit of the fact that this thread was about info on the Crime Prevention Award..... All of the seven Webelos in our den earned the US Heritage award last November. We worked on it in conjunction with the Citizen activity badge. We only got the boys the patch (at $3 a piece), which we treated as a temporary patch. I think it used to say that on the website. The boys all loved the patch, which is actually well done. The most difficult part of the award was figuring out the original thirteen colonies (which my son got from his commerative state quarter display)and writing a sho

Congratualtions!!! I'll try and hide my envy. I do not start Wood Badge until August. Again, well done! Marty

In our city, at each elementary school, the children recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of each school day. And each school has added a couple of sentences at the end of the "official" pledge (which in White Plains includes "under God") about diversity, respect, tolerance, et cetera. We must be PC. Each school's addendum is slightly different. There are five elementary schools, but only three packs, so each Pack has boys from every school. So, of course, at every Pack meeting (and probably every den meeting), there is this confusion at the end of the Pledge as the parents and leaders

One doesn't really have to have seen the badly acted, preachy, low-budget/independant, message movie to realize that this is not a Vespers appropriate tune. The lyrics talk about anger, greed, jealousy, hate, war, massacre and, I guess, disappointment when the treasure is revealed to be "only" a message about "peace on earth". Where are the Scouting values and ideals in there? Billyjack the movie? Everytime Billy gets angry, he resorts to violence, ultimately murdering the "bad guy", for which he is arrested (and driven away to the song "One Tin Soldier"). Again, not very Scout-like. O

On another list, I heard a rumor that the Crime Prevention Patch had been discontinued a year ago. (of course, these things are all overheard by someone's friend). Anyone else hear this? We have had our WEBELOS den complete Citizen and Family Member ABs "out of sequence", had a talk by a NYPD detective on Internet safety and are making 30 mousepads with internet safety rules for the local school (the PTA is our CO). I may need to switch, or find an alternate special patch....

One Hour - Which fume are you excluding - Aclohol, gasoline or perfume?

Thanks for all the great advice and words of encouragement. I will let you know how things turn out.....

Thank you, Imascouter, for re-posting this as a separate thread. I guess that the following information might expand the discussion. Since I posed the first question, about changing a pack's culture and improving pack meetings to incorporate awards and fun, I have learned the following: * I am assuming the Cubmaster (CM) position since the current CM is moving up to Scouts with his son. It turns out that the only Assistant Cubmaster (ACM) and Committee Chairperson (CC) are also leaving. * The COR has no relationship with our CO (the school PTA), but that is okay since he never atten

I am currently a Webelos den leader, and have volunteered to be Cubmaster next year. This is one of the problems in our pack. To date, we have had four pack meetings, and there is no "real" meeting in January (PWD)or February (B&G). So far, only six Scouts (out of 55 scouts in the pack)have gotten an award - Bobcat. No other Scouts have been given awards, except our den of Webelos I. They have gotten loops, patches, pins and Activity Badges, at almost every meeting. The current CM doesn't like to give out awards because they take up too much time. Pack meetings are usually: uniform in

As a new Cubmaster,looking for reasons to get leaders to wear uniforms, and then hopefully Scouts, I think I have found my "speech". Any objection to borrowing with attribution? What do you think you forgot? Very impressive.

Check on EBAY, under Boy Scout spoof patches. There is a vender, Ric Hall, who uses the name OLDTIMES40, who sells a 3 1/2 inch round patch that sounds like what you are looking for, usually for around $3.50.